MEDIA INDUSTRIES: Participation

By the end of the fourth week, our group managed to secure our four seminar guests, consisting of Anna Gregory (Executive producer at Fremantle Media), Jeff Shenker (Line producer & production manager at Ch.9), Ron Frim (senior News director at ABC) and Lucy McLaren (Producer at Renegade films). Surprisingly everything seems to be moving along well for our seminar preparation, especially after the confirmation of our professional industry guests, who all seem to be quite experienced in network TV.

After little deliberation, our group decided that the stage theme of our seminar would resemble a domestic living room, which would correspond to our “breaking in(to a house)” theme. As we collectively made a brief list of essential props needed for our staging, I ensured everyone that everything on our list can be obtained from the props department next to the RMIT studio located in building 12, as I was familiar with the studios facilities from having classes there previously while studying the screen & media course at RMIT. After the group meeting, Troy and I paid a visit to the props department and took a look around, finding extra props that we could make use of. We then approached the studio manager and asked him whether or not we could borrow the props for use in building 7, who told us to go back to the studio, closer to the date of our event, in order to confirm the props- due to the fact that studio productions there have priority over the props.

Seems Promising…